Skunk Cabbage
- Title
- Skunk Cabbage
- LC Subject
- Water gardens Water Plants Photography--Printing processes--Platinotype Photography Platinum Outdoor photography Nature photography nature photography palladium prints platinum prints photography (discipline) art photography
- Creator
- Harding, Goodwin
- Description
- A platinum/palladium print of a waterscape, focusing on the leaves and flowers of skunk cabage in the middle of the photograph. The reflections of the surrounding trees, leaves and flowers are well-detailed in the still lake. Skunk Cabbage; Mapleton, Oregon, 1981; 7.5 x 10 inches; platinum/palladium print The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
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- full
- Location
- Department of State Lands >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 775 Summer St. N.E., Salem Oregon
- Award Date
- 1981
- Identifier
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_05_a01
- Item Locator
- HAR: 90-10
- Accession Number
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_05_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Harding, Goodwin
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 15 H x 18 W inches
- Material
- Photography platinum/palladium photograph
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1990 State Lands Building Salem Oregon 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- My platinum prints are made by contact from 8 x 10 inch negatives. They are hand-coated on fine art paper. I have chosen this outmoded printing method because platinum has a greater capacity than commercial silver-based papers to register the long tonal scale available in a negative, particulary the gradation in middle and high value. The great appeal of platinum prints lies in their beauty, in the luminosity of print values. The prints are tactile objects in themselves, full of the impression of substance and atmosphere. (OAC documentation, 1990)
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- SKUNK CABBAGE, MAPLETON, OREGON, 1981: Each spring I marvel at the valiant performance of skunk cabbage, at the very splendor of her regal costume. From frosted bogs unfurl greatcoats of deepest emerald, which soon disclose flaming buds jubilant in anticipation of spring. Sometimes gazing at Skunk Cabbage I envision Amazon parrots squabbling on a limb; other times I am reminded of a flock of hens, tails upturned, enacting some ritual barnyard ballet! Always I am fascinated by reflections which give shadow substance, thereby disturbing intrinsic reality. Above all I love the dancing forms, the surrender to sunshine, and the stillness. The mystery of how vital substance possibly could prevail upon water, how such beauty could arise apparently out of nowhere, fills the heart with affirmation. (Harding, 1990)
